A team of police personnel from Canada on Tuesday held talks with the top brass of Chandigarh police and CBI here in connection with the bombing of Air India flight ‘Kanishka’ in 1985.
The five-member team is on a visit to Chandigarh and Punjab to probe a few leads in connection with the incident in which […]
Punjab will introduce crop insurance for all marginal farmers from the next rabi season. The department of food and supplies has generated adequate funds that will be used for the purpose of insurance, without seeking any monetary help from the state government.
Minister for food and supplies Adesh Partap Singh Kairon said all modalities had been […]
Chandigarh is star-studded these days with the presence of so many cricket and film celebrities coming down to the city. Cricket teams of India and Australia are staying in Chandigarh as they had come to take part in the second test match of the Gavaskar-Border series at the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) stadium in Mohali, […]
Paddy procurement picked up momentum in Punjab as 21.39 lakh tonne of paddy was procured by Tuesday.
PUNGRAIN procured 4,84,359 tonne of paddy (25.9%) whereas MARKFED procured 4,43,069 tonne of paddy (23.7%). PUNSUP procured 4,27,970 tonne of paddy (22.9%) whereas Punjab State Warehousing Corporation procured 2,59,071 tonnes (13.8%) besides 2,29,949 tonne of paddy (12.3%) procured by […]
Following its early success in Maharashtra, Thomson Reuters today launched Reuters Market Light (RML) in Punjab, with over 3,000 subscribers already sold. RML, which brings commodity prices, crop and weather data to Indian farmers via mobile phones, is planning to introduce mobile information service for the agricultural community of Rajasthan and Gujarat also.
It has signed […]
One of Punjab’s top IAS officers, principal secretary A S Chhatwal, on Monday committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan
in his Chandigarh home.
Chhatwal, a 1986 batch Punjab cadre officer, was found hanging in his Sector 39 official residence by his wife and was brought to PGI hospital by her and the family’s next-door […]
The sangat darshan programmee of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Wednesday proved to be a boon to the flood affected farmers of the Mand areas of Sultanpurlodhi as announced ownership rights to the peasants who were cultivating 6000 acres of pond area land owned by the state government.
The farmers became jubilant raised slogans […]
India’s comprehensive victory against Australia in the Mohali Test today provided the perfect occasion for celebration on a day when there was despair in Parliament, Union minister Kapil Sibal said.
“On the one hand, there is despair as the House is not being allowed to run…This is a matter of celebration that India defeated Australia by […]
The brawl between a senior resident doctor and an assistant professor of the department of urology in the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) here took an ugly turn Monday with over 800 resident doctors going on an indefinite strike.
Much to the agony of people, the services in the Out Patient Department […]
After a bumper wheat crop earlier this year, Punjab and Haryana seem to be heading for a bumper paddy crop as well. Nearly 3.3 million tonnes of paddy was procured in both states till Tuesday evening.Officials from both states Wednesday said paddy arrivals in grain markets across the two states were in full swing.
A Punjab […]